Horse Bitch rides again with their new EP, UVA, released Thursday, September 5, 2024 much to the anticipation of emo and country fans nationwide. The Denver band’s rabble-rousing, balancing-on-a-razor’s-edge live set has seen them enjoy performance slots at major music festivals in 2024, including Wichita's Elsewhere fest, Boise's Treefort, and the main stage at Denver's Underground Music Showcase. Horse Bitch looks forward to sharing their most confident and diverse work yet, exploring stadium rock, celtic punk, classic country, and orchestral art rock styles throughout the six song EP. Horse Bitch’s brand of emo-tonk, which has been likened to “Buck Owens meets Modern baseball,” “post Allman Brothers” and “American Black Country New Roads” (from Kelsie x the Yellow Button) has taken over the Rocky Mountain front range and greater midwest. They’ve expanded from 2020’s Spacing Out three piece—featuring acoustic guitar, tambourine, and piano—to a full scale country rock band with fiddle, cello, pedal steel, twin lead guitars, keyboard, lush background vocals, and five separate lead singers. From their songwriter beginnings—harkening to The Mountain Goats, The Magnetic Fields, and The Front Bottoms—to the current electric iteration of the band, a tragic comedy plays out in each Horse Bitch track. Brutally silly and irreverent lyrics are delivered with a deep melancholy, tugging at the listener’s sense of isolation, insecurity, and childhood nostalgia. UVA (meaning “Universe”)’s opening track “Pirate Ride” is a prime example, opening with a campy high-speed arpeggiated melodic line followed by a verse where the lead singer opines having to go grocery shopping when he’d “rather go to Wendy’s.” A minute or so later, the song delivers a sober eulogy to a childhood baseball friend, atop a slower and more contemplative band accompaniment. In 2025, the band will continue its busy touring schedule, returning to their usual haunts in Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas, California, and Arizona, while debuting in new territories in Texas, Louisiana, the Pacific Northwest, and the East Coast.